Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of my fave places to explore in London, and the best thing is its free to go inside. However, there are a few exhibitions that they have from time to time that you have to pay for and two that they have at the moment are the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 and the Otherworlds visions of our solar system photography exhibitions. I have been to both recently and let me tell you they are awesome. Unfortunately I don't have any photos in this post as you are not allowed to take any, as you can understand, but you can find information and have a sneak peak at the odd photo on the Natural History Museum website.

Every year my friend and I go and see the Wildlife photographer of the year exhibition and this year was no different, the only difference was that we had my friend's 7 month old daughter with us. The photographs were amazing and ranged from landscapes to animals, some of which I had never heard of. The whole exhibition is truly inspiring and make me look at the nature and world around me in a different way, and makes me appreciate just how beautiful our wildlife is.

If you have children and are thinking about visiting but are apprehensive please don't worry we were fine with my friend's daughter. It is dark inside the exhibition and I think this helped her to fall asleep and so she sleep through a lot of our visit. While she was awake she enjoyed looking at the pictures and she was engages with the animals and colours. She was chatting away (in baby language mind lol) looking at the photographs and enjoying herself and this did mean we got a few looks, but if you are a parent don't worry about these people, they don't have anymore right to go to the exhibition than you do. You should def go and have a look, you will not regret it.

A few weeks later my sister and I both had a day off in the week and were looking for something different to do in London and so I suggested the Otherworlds visions of our solar systems photography exhibition. I am so glad we went it really was out of this world lol ;)

I find space so fascinating and love to watch the star gazing programmes that are on the BBC with Brian Cox (sorry if you are not from the UK and have no idea what I am talking about). As part of my job I sometimes look at global models to look at weather patterns around the world as well as tropical cyclones, and find those images stunning.

The Otherworlds exhibition displays photographs that have been taken over the past six decades, with photos of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Comets. The images are truly stunning and I just left the museum in awe of how amazing our universe is and I now want to explore and understand more about our solar system.

A quick note if you are planning on attending the Otherworlds exhibition there is a free audio tour if you have a smart phone so I would take along some earphones. We did not know about this and did not have any earphones, but I really wish we had been able to listen to the audio tour.

Happy exploring!!!

The Natural History Museum really is a beautiful building


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